Patents by Inventor Mark Barlow Hammer

Mark Barlow Hammer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11233679
    Abstract: In some examples, a controller includes an interface to receive presence indicators associated with computer nodes, and a processor to determine, based on the presence indicators, a quantity of a set of computer nodes that are present in a system, and adjust, based on the determined quantity, phases of activity control indications provided to the computer nodes of the set of computer nodes, wherein the adjusting is to vary a first phase of a first activity control indication of the activity control indications relative to a second phase of a second activity control indication of the activity control indications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventor: Mark Barlow Hammer
  • Publication number: 20210377082
    Abstract: In some examples, a controller includes an interface to receive presence indicators associated with computer nodes, and a processor to determine, based on the presence indicators, a quantity of a set of computer nodes that are present in a system, and adjust, based on the determined quantity, phases of activity control indications provided to the computer nodes of the set of computer nodes, wherein the adjusting is to vary a first phase of a first activity control indication of the activity control indications relative to a second phase of a second activity control indication of the activity control indications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventor: Mark Barlow Hammer
  • Patent number: 10867076
    Abstract: Examples relate to edge device disablement. In some examples, edge device disablement includes an edge device including a processing resource in communication with a memory resource including instructions executable to receive an indication of a disablement trigger associated with the edge device and responsive to the indication, reprogram a printed circuit assembly (PCA) of the edge device to render mechanisms of the PCA inoperable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Michael Stearns, Mark Barlow Hammer, Chanh V. Hua, Sunil Gopalkrishna, Yang Wang
  • Publication number: 20200326760
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to using a neural network to take inputs to control fans on a blade system. A chassis management controller is used to control the fans in the blade system. The blade system can have a number of blade slots. The chassis management controller can implement a neural network including multiple nodes. One of the nodes includes multiple inputs including a sensor input and a baseboard management controller input from one of the blades coupled to at least one blade slot. The neural network processes the inputs to determine an output. The output can be used to control a fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventor: Mark Barlow Hammer
  • Patent number: 10606330
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to selectively enabling backup power to nodes. For example, a system includes a plurality of compute nodes, where each node includes a plurality of loads. The system also includes at least one backup power supply and control module coupled to the nodes and to the at least one backup power supply. The control module is to selectively enable an output of power from the at least one backup power supply to the nodes based on a comparison of a power capacity of the at least one backup power supply and a backup power demand of the nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Sivathevan Maheswaran, Mark Barlow Hammer, James Alexander Fuxa, Han Wang, Yovita Iskandar
  • Publication number: 20190332812
    Abstract: Examples relate to edge device disablement. In some examples, edge device disablement includes an edge device including a processing resource in communication with a memory resource including instructions executable to receive an indication of a disablement trigger associated with the edge device and responsive to the indication, reprogram a printed circuit assembly (PCA) of the edge device to render mechanisms of the PCA inoperable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Stearns, Mark Barlow Hammer, Chanh V. Hua, Sunil Gopalkrishna, Yang Wang
  • Publication number: 20180032120
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to selectively enabling backup power to nodes. For example, a system includes a plurality of compute nodes, where each node includes a plurality of loads. The system also includes at least one backup power supply and control module coupled to the nodes and to the at least one backup power supply. The control module is to selectively enable an output of power from the at least one backup power supply to the nodes based on a comparison of a power capacity of the at least one backup power supply and a backup power demand of the nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Sivathevan Maheswaran, Mark Barlow Hammer, James Alexander Fuxa, Han Wang, Yovita Iskandar